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Not mentioned but it looks like it'll be 5400 RPM as the other Scorpio Blue models have that spindle speed. Regarding the 12.5mm height, that would potentially make for a fine entrant as a server drive as some are now only supporting 2.5" units. However, that spindle speed will likely keep it...

As near as I can tell, the Ikea "Koppla" power strips are not surge protectors. 2 6-plug strips for like $5 or 6. They have a relatively short cord and an on/off switch but I don't see anything indicative of a surge capability. While they are in stores (bought a pack yesterday), Ikea's site...

I picked up one of these for $8 at Radio Shack awhile back. It does have a built-in breaker but I'm not sure at what point it triggers.

So you could label the cables for drive positions 1-24 as you install them. That'd make service later much simpler. You could also map each cable position to a specific drive slot/bay and label those as well.

Would that be a Mozilla soon (days) or a Microsoft soon (months)?

That's in part why I've been holding off so far. For as long as they've been out, good quality SSDs are still in the early adopter phase when it comes to pricing. I'd rather wait until they get under about $2/GB, but I can only be patient for so long.

For me it would probably be to replace my laptop's drive, currently a 120GB with <40GB free. Also, from a wear leveling perspective, given x GB of data, the large the drive the longer it should last.

You can always do wireless via USB if needed.

Just an example. My Charbroil grill is 10+ years old and cost about $225 at the time. I think my wife would be cooking my carcass on the grill if I spent two grand on it.

This article cites $440 for the 160GB Intel. I could probably do that. And in other Intel news, quad core CPUs are getting a price reduction in advance of a new generation to debut this fall.

uda's on my ignore list so I've no idea what he posted. Anyway, a minor footnote to my saga. My employer has Whirlpool as a client. Just an hour or so ago I get our daily corporate email and it notes that our discount on Whirlpool equipment has been extended from just employees working on the...

Update on my dishwasher saga: As of July 17 (last Friday) we hadn't received credit for the canceled order so we went back to the store with paperwork in hand. Turns out the original order was never properly canceled. :errr: So it was canceled that evening and I got my (nearly) $1200 back...

http://sonic840.deviantart.com/art/Computer-hardware-poster-1-7-111402099 It doesn't have them all, but it's close.

Got budget? http://www.solarwinds.com/

There seem to be a few spammy threads popping up about that other ED. What got me to comment was you said the set has ED, not is ED. ;-)

Your TV has ED? They have meds for that, you know.

I agree with Doug. We buy some things on BD and others on DVD. Depends on the title and price. As a rule, effects-heavy titles, action flicks, SF-type stuff will be BD while chick flicks and other character-driven shows will be DVD. TV shows we really like - Chuck, Burn Notice, etc. - we get...

Ours would have been simple as well if the initial unit hadn't been damaged. The problem is that Sears apparently has no standard process for handling things when something goes wrong. I didn't hear the chant in the background but could have easily imagined it: "When in panic or in doubt...

The HDTV includes an HD tuner and has inputs for more or less everything: HDMI, VGA, component, S-video, composite, coax/cable/antenna. The BD player outputs HDMI, component, and composite. I can't remember if it does S-video. So the BD player can output to SD TVs. I haven't tried it, though.

We've a Kenmore (Whirlpool) HE washer and like it a lot. My wife wouldn't go for a front-loader so it's a traditional top-loader design. But it still uses the HE detergent, doesn't have a center spindle, uses less power & water, etc. Nice unit. It seems to spin up in stages. You hear...

1 HDTV in the bedroom, 1 SDTV in the family room, both driven from the DishTV HD DVR. The SDTV will be upgraded sometime, but for now we have too many other things wanting to turn our income into outgo.

Yep, we've got all 5 season 3 eps on our HD DVR.

Well, we didn't do too bad even if it was an all-male school at the time. We would draw girls from St. Mary of the Woods (all female..) or ISU-Terre Haute. The St. Marys girls weren't much, but ISU had some nice ones, including one who later wound up being my first wife. And I kid you not...

You guys make my 1340/1600 feel like the village idiot. I was accepted to MIT & Cal Tech but had financial circumstances similar to Merc so I wound up at Rose-Hulman. This was back in the early to mid '80s.

Well, keep in mind the cost of the Vista is a sunk cost for new machines. So while I've never supported upgrading the existing client systems to Vista I've no problem with letting Vista, now Win7, take over as machines are replaced. Yes, IT has the burden of supporting both the old & new OSes...

144MB/sec .. makes me wonder if they were using a host with a 1.5Gb/s controller and not a 3Gb/s controller.

I'm going to guess that at some point MS will disallow new downgrade installs and new Software Assurance license installs of XP, which will force new machines to go Win7. That point probably won't hit for a couple of years after Win7 has been released but MS will need to force people's hands...

$19.00 + S/H. I just googled "samsung dryer lp conversion kit" and started looking. Others seem to have had problems finding it as well.

Token ring using baluns .. I remember that. I also remember using baluns for twinax cabling (for terminals, printers, and PCs with emulation cards) to convert daisy chaining to star topologies. Actually I had twinax in use for console cabling as recently as 2005. Everything else was...

Exactly. I've no idea what it was trying to do. It had opened a window that was probably 1024x768 or maybe 1280x1024 and then poof .. the screen went black and I had to reboot into a very ugly lo-res mess.

I thought I would try Virtual Box on my work laptop as I've a need to start looking at Open Solaris. I installed the latest version just fine. The first sign that all was not well was when the installer disabled my AV app and didn't re-enable it when the install was done. After manually...

What they call "reality" programming I couldn't care less about. There are a few really good scripted shows, though, including Chuck (NBC) and Burn Notice (USA). There are also a fair number of decent shows although they can be hit and miss. But summer, with most shows in reruns (Burn Notice...

Symlinks are OK but that's an extra file management step that the average person isn't going to want to do. Being able to tag files seems a heck of a lot easier to me; just apply lables like you do to GMail messages.

The folder organization scheme falls apart at some point. I have too may files and/emails that fall into multiple categories. So when I'm filing them I always reacha decision point as to which folder to put the file/folder in. Regardless of which option I take, at some point in the future I...

I can confirm that Vista Ultimate includes both x86 and x64 DVDs and a single license key.

Interesting dashboard. Shows IT budget & spending by department and how far ahead (ha!) or behind their major projects are.

Thanks, paugie. I've done tape backups on midrange equipment since 1988 and have gone from the old "round reel" cabinet tape drives like this (1200-6250 bits per inch, 2400 foot per tape) through various cartridge tape systems like the 3480. In recent years that's included AIT and AIT2 and...

My Comcrap connection varies so much I can't tell if it's faster on page loads or not. Rendering does seem pretty snappy, though.

Absolutely the first thing to do is clean the tape drive. The drive should have come with a cleaning cartridge. After that, the most common problem I've observed when trying to maximize tape throughput is that the machine being backed up cannot pump data fast enough. A 600MB/s disk subsystem...

Has anyone looked at the OCZ Summit series? It looks like a Vertex with twice the buffer (128MB).

I'd never suggest a netbook for corporate use unless the user had very light-duty needs. Your SAP consultants were using the wrong tool for the job. One clue is netbooks ship with the Home version of Windows. That should say something about the target market and about the machines...

Maybe the U115 w/8GB SSD & 160GB HD. It runs of the SSD & uses the HD for storage. Seems it would meet your requirements. The U123 that DD mentioned above should do OK as well. While the N280 in the U123 has a higher bus speed than the Z530 i nthe U115, the Z series CPUs apparently have some...

The U123 is my current leading choice, although I don't expect to buy anytime soon. If you really want something with better performance characteristics, RDP from the Wind to a faster machine. :)

I've done a double shift on Christmas Eve (had an operator quit with no notice). My longest that I can recall is 23 hours straight. But I've also had runs where it was several days in a row of 14-16 hour days. I've done the long shifts enough that I can recognize when my reasoning abilities...

I was going to suggest Powerline for Ethernet over the power cables but I see Netgear has upped the options. This kit contains a Powerline base station and a Powerline WAP to extend WiFi to anywhere reachable by the Powerline.

While not a hotel and probably not the solution you're looking for, our corporate offices use Cisco Aironets tied into the backbone network. I'm not sure which model we use, but coverage is good, they support multiple WLANs (secured corporate and unsecured guest), and get their power from the...

Striker, I don't really know anything about the G1, but the Pre and the iPhone both use Webkit-based browsers. Reports are that the Pre offers the fastest experience, being about 4x faster than the iPhone 3G, which should make it still roughly twice as fast as the new 3Gs. Both offer automatic...

We picked up the domestic release of PE on BD, not the BBC version. Sigourney Weaver narrates and I like her version better than the BBC narrator (David Attenborough). AFAIK the domestic version is only available at the Discovery site; I've only ever seen the BBC version at retail.

I wasn't playing much upon the Pre's hardware as webOS is the real darling. But the Pre's CPU is fast enough to decode HD video. It has a real keyboard, which is something I won't compromise on. The Pre really does have a warm, organic feel to it (especially with the matte finish of the back...

Like I said, SERO plan people tend to run into problems. It definitely sounds like some wires have been crossed somewhere in your account settings. Instead of talking to CS on the phone, go to a corporate Sprint store and ask them to help straighten out your billing issue. Or call the...